| 人道 | rén dào | human sympathy / humanitarianism / humane / the "human way", one of the stages in the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhism) / sexual intercourse |   |
| 阶段性 | jiē duàn xìng | specific to a particular stage (of a project etc) / interim (policy etc) / occurring in stages / phased | |
| 分期 | fēn qī | by stages / staggered / step by step / in installments | |
| 初创 | chū chuàng | startup (company, phase etc) / newly established / in the early stages | |
| 继往开来 | jì wǎng kāi lái | to follow the past and herald the future (idiom) / part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages | |
| 承前启后 | chéng qián qǐ hòu | to follow the past and herald the future (idiom) / part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages | |
| 步 |  bù | a step / a pace / walk / march / stages in a process / situation | |
| 承上起下 | chéng shàng qǐ xià | to follow the past and herald the future (idiom) / part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages | |
| 多轮 | duō lún | in many stages / multilayered / multipronged (attack) | |
| 福煦 | Fú xù | Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One | |
| 八相成道 | bā xiàng chéng dào | the eight stages of the Buddha's life (Buddhism) | |
